City of Austin in need of more police officers, medics

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APD is not the only department facing staffing issues. According to Selena Xie, President of Austin EMS Association, ATCEMS are seeing a 25% staffing shortage.

The city is currently negotiating a raise"We are really increasing our responsibilities and really taking on the issues that the city council really cares about including mental health first response, but unfortunately we can’t accomplish many of these things because we are so short-staffed," said Xie.to consider a higher wage for EMS workers.

At the public safety meeting, commissioners addressed that no City of Austin representative was present to provide comment to what was presented or to negotiate solutions. "I do consider [the city] not coming to this discussion a slap in the face for the work, specifically EMS, has done over the last few years with this pandemic," said Rocky Lane, Public Safety Commissioner.Commissioners say the city was not present at this meeting because they were in a different meeting discussing the EMS wage.

 

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